"Historically, community dissatisfaction with school communication has remained unchanged despite Mabry's best efforts. However, in one year, with the advent of blogging, that level of dissatisfaction has been cut in half. School and community communication is but part of this story. Blogging can also be leveraged to maximize student engagement and academic achievement as well as student collaboration with peers and professionals around the world."I love what this principal did at his school. He forced his staff to have a blog and post on it at least once a week. What happened? Many teachers loved their blogs and found them to be great tools to help them reach out to students with content and to allow parents to be involved in the learning process. Parents loved the blogs because they actually knew what their children were learning in their classes. I can just imagine the conversation at the dinner table for a student in that class:
Mom - "So what did you do in School today?"
Son - "Nothin."
Mom - "Really? You didn't learn a single thing?"
Son - "Not really."
Mom - "Really because on Mr. Petersen's blog it says you learned about the concepts of microbiology and that you have a test on chapter 3 on Friday."
Son - "Oh yeah."
This school realized the power of the blog and has taken it and used it to their advantages and I love it. There is no reason to be afraid of technology, if you are ask the people on your staff who know what to do to help you. I'm sure they would love to help you to start a blog.
If you don't have a blog start one today, it's easy.
Here I'll even help you out....just click HERE and you are well on your way.
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